Word: galandou
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Lion Noir is the name of a popular French brand of black shoe polish. Black Lion is also the self-given nickname of the second tallest, darkest-skinned member of the French Chamber of Deputies-Negro Galandou Diouf, 64, Deputy for Senegal, one of the four colored and one of the most colorful men in the French Government...
...Galandou Diouf claims that he is the only legal representative of 19,000,000 French West African Negroes. Exceedingly well informed on colonial matters, he wants protectorate rights, on a par with Morocco or Algeria, for all French colonies. He would like to be the first colonial Senator and, eventually, Minister of Colonies. Last week he was in trouble -along with a retired colonial bureaucrat named Pierre Francois Tallerie...
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